>Maybe cartoonishly large fines levied against powerful entities

right, the tradition is that fines be cartoonishly small so that breaking the law can be factored into the cost of doing business, who the hell does the EU think they are to go against tradition!!?

>Streets doesn’t have their own “personality” and you have to learn them by name.

I've lived in both types of cities, and actually even the most grid cities like Salt Lake City, have parts that are named as opposed to just numbered.

I prefer the numbered cities for finding way around.

Finally I don't think the everything appears the same is integral to it being a grid city, that is instead a side effect of American habits of rebuilding often so you end up with everything relatively new and in the same styles. That is to say the stylistic affect is orthogonal to the grid, although they are both found to coexist this is just a historical coincidence.

>I don’t know half of the street names of the city I grew in, but I know where I am by the way they intersect and twist around in interesting shapes…

I don't know where your city is, but I did notice many years before everyone had a phone I was in a class in Copenhagen and everyone in the class had lived in Copenhagen their whole life and then someone talked about an address and nobody knew where it was so someone had to go out to their car and get a book of maps.

Of course Copenhagen was also built to be potentially confusing to invaders, as I understand it, and I have often thought I was walking towards a particular destination to find I have either been walking away from it or perpendicular to it.

I also find that I prefer websites that are easy to navigate than ones that have character but are confusing. But I do prefer art that is apt to be confusing and intellectually stimulating to things that are simple and clear cut.

I think perhaps the problem is I just don't want going shopping in an unfamiliar part of town to feel like a surrealistic event.

It would be useful to have examples of data and the representation this would result in.

Although you can go to https://jsoncanvas.org/ itself and see an example rendering, you cannot see the exact data that created it - I think, although you can sort of guess since the element names are stuff like node.

I sort of doubt this is the best data structure for representing this kind of thing. Maybe I'm wrong though but I would think I would go for something like https://github.com/jsongraph/json-graph-specification which strikes me as closer to graphml which I have some experience with, and maybe give it ability to embed videos etc. (which for all I know someone already has)

This is all an initial feeling though, like hmm, no I think it's wrong, and maybe I am just not seeing why this would be better than another solution.

You can see the data it created. Just click "Toggle output" in the bottom right corner.

Oh, thanks. Those buttons seem designed to be as inconspicuous as possible.

This just looks like a pretty normal homepage. It was not obvious to me at all that the homepage was an actual dynamically rendered canvas, as opposed to just canvas-"themed".

Curious to know what “zoom normally” means for you. For me, it’s ctrl+mouse wheel or maybe two finger pinch/pull on trackpad. I am thoroughly confused as to why GitHub’s mermaid integration doesn’t seem to support any zoom outside of the overlay controls which…ick

zoom normally for me is cmd+, the and in my statement meant that when I zoomed I could not scroll to where I wanted to read, hence "I couldn't zoom normally AND scroll to where I wanted to read", I didn't try the zoom buttons and see if I could scroll because I just checked if I could zoom normally, could, but could not scroll to read parts that were now outside the view.

But later I did check using the buttons and it still doesn't allow you to scroll to read parts of the screen that have moved outside of the view because one has zoomed in too far.

Browser was Firefox Dev, OS MacOs. Did Not check if it was specific to the browser OS combination but that is because I doubt it, given my experience that most of these kinds of applications always end up screwing with the scrolling to some extent.

Notice that the JSON spec box on the front page could scroll up and down, but the readme part could not, furthermore the json spec box if I was zoomed in too far was also rendered partially outside of the view horizontally, and could not scroll horizontally. This is of course on the whole window, not individual parts, that scrolling did not work as it should. I'm sure I could go into the page code and find why I could not scroll and then fix it so I could scroll, but I would rather that the whole thing allows scrolling on the window without my help.

ctrl+mouse wheel triggers the application zoom in most cases. However, if my mouse is over the scrollable node, it invokes the Google Chrome window zoom (so I end up with two competing zoom transforms). It also zooms relative to the upper left corner, rather than relative to my cursor (seems the app doesn't support panning?). The background dots also move and change size as I zoom (subtle but somewhat distracting).

that's definitely how they get you.

original title: Ultraviolet light illuminates species-specific biofluorescent casque patterns in cassowaries (Casuarius)

a funny reading - if anyone pays for something that won't be around in a week they deserve to be scammed by some scammer.

that said it seems somewhat close to a scam.

but having said those things I'll just note here, knowing you were not the original poster, that people do not in any way deserve to be scammed because they fall for easy to spot scams.

>If this happens and Cuba decides to launch drones/missiles against the US homeland, it's not an exaggeration to say that Cuba is flattened and invaded that same afternoon.

I sort of think it maybe is an exaggeration, you're evidently of the opinion that the U.S happens to have enough battle ready troops with the requisite hardware positioned within a few hours of Cuba so that they can invade and flatten in the time it takes to fly from Miami to Havana?

I don't know, but a Destroyer would take about 10 hours to get from Florida to Cuba.

It seems your definition of invade and flatten is just dropping bombs, but that definitely does not handle the invade part of things, and it remains to be seen as to whether, with drones, being able to fly non-stop is the great technological advantage it once was.

Some preliminary evidence from around the world suggests in a drone led conflict it confers the ability to have expensive hardware destroyed and pilots killed non-stop.

Assuming the scenario happened the first bombing runs would be over after 2h and would continue for the next 48h until amphibious assault fast response finishes landing, by which time it’s safe to assume there isn’t much left to defend (though rubble makes a horrible war zone for the attacking side).

Cuba simply isn’t Iran. They’re a blockaded island with not much military experience. Iran is a huge mountainous country preparing for war for the last 40 years with first hand experience of getting blown up from above and from the inside by USA allies and surviving just fine.

Yes, and then they will be welcomed with open arms, right?

By at least some. The Americans I know who have traveled to Cuba (policy changes, it was possible a few years ago at least) report the people love Americans. Of course what you see as a tourist isn't reality but at least some is true.

Tourists visiting NL also think we love tourists here.

I don't think they'd be welcomed at all is the point...

Yeah when you read it in Dune "He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing". sounds super cool and badass and like totally brilliant strategy but in real life not so much.

Although I expect this strategy will be employed soon

https://medium.com/luminasticity/predicting-the-worst-and-st...

that depends how much more quickly and efficiently you can do the extra work in step 2 than in step 1.

In this case it’s strictly less efficient.

You can only correct for missing entries by doing the same work you’d need to start from scratch. But after that you now have a second list to consider.

>Space is mostly empty

Yes, but Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

Exactly and people on LinkedIn think they are smarter than everyone and definitely smarter than dolphins, because what dolphins do? They muck in the water all day having good time whereas humans built important profiles on LinkedIn having good time berating each other.